Martha Stewart at Design Indaba 2010

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Business, Design, Food

Let them eat cake.
She might as well have said it. (Or it might have been, Let them eat pork, with glitter?)
Poor Martha. She was savaged, by an audience that walked out en masse.
How could she have gotten it so wrong? How did she manage to alienate her audience so thoroughly?
Was it that she…
i)              …talked [...]

A Conversation with Nussbaum: Expect the Unpredictable

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Business, Design, change

So, I had the opportunity to chat to design guru Bruce Nussbaum, an approachable yet highly intelligent man, who writes a popular blog for Business Week.
When asked to elaborate on his thoughts on the book The Black Swan, which he had mentioned in his Design Indaba talk, Nussbaum told me that he has learnt a [...]

Bruce Nussbaum at Design Indaba 2010

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Business, Design, change

Casually, he strolled on to stage, to face more than a thousand people, and announced that what he really felt like, that morning, was to have an intimate conversation…. About ‘designomics’ and the future.
His introduction to ‘designomics’ was that we live in a world of constant, cascading change. A world in which design has the [...]

My quick take on the Woolies Lovebirds campaign

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Business, Marketing

I was recently asked to comment on the Woolworths LoveBirds campaign and in a matter of a few minutes jotted down some notes on the campaign for Bizcommunity. Please take note that this was done in a rush, but I like it like that. Feel free to correct any inaccuracies which might appear in the [...]

Farfar hangs the worlds largest digital billboard for Nokia

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Marketing, featured

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Swedish agency Farfar, in order to promote Nokia’s navigation technology have recently hung a huge digital arrow in the skies of London.
According to AdFreak, Farfar hung a  ”giant digital arrow above London that the public could control by sending (via text message or Web) any destination worldwide, which the arrow would then slowly turn and [...]

A few things mobile.

Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by gabyrosario in Marketing, featured

It seems a little silly to write this post a week ahead of Mobile Web Africa, where guaranteed more will be explored, but I’ve been navigating in the mobile space for a while and thought I’d share a few of my discoveries.
First up in the Mobile Marketing Space, is Infinit – the work of Rowan [...]

Google’s Fast Flip Service : News On The Move

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Business, Tech, featured

Google has recently launched their experimental news reader Fast Flip which allows google news readers to flip through the feature pieces from; BBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek; magazines like Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic, Esquire and Good Housekeeping, TechCrunch, Salon.com and Slate.
With a mutually beneficial shared revenue system, google will [...]

Why can’t I window shop online?

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Marketing

I might be in the minority here as a man, but I’ve never thrown up my arms like a lock at a lineout at the mention of going shopping.* If the shop I’m to attend is not infested, not an echo-chamber for tired kids screams and not as frigid as Woolworths’ food isles then I’ll [...]

BMW’s S.X concept car, the 6 series successor?

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Business, Lifestyle

The BMW S.X concept is the work of designer Iulian Bumbu, who had earlier created the Lamborghini Insecta concept. The concept delves into what a future sports luxury coupe from BMW might look like, and is positioned as a successor to the BMW 6-series. The design exercise continues with BMW’s “flame-surfacing styling language” and maintains [...]

Dining on tequila & cocktails at the 27Dinner in Jozi.

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by SheBee in Business, Tech

Every alternate month I have the privilege of attending Jozi 27Dinner.  I’ve been to a few tweet up’s in Cape Town and created one or two of my own in Durban and in Jozi, but tweet up’s are Mickey Mouse compared to the fame of 27Dinners.

Yeah, of course they’re informing and interesting to see who’s doing [...]